Finished

A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING

If the section on biology is anything to go by, the book has some concepts grossly simplified but is, overall, surprisingly accurate in a layman's description of...well, nearly everything.

It's not an easy thing to do. I'm fairly impressed, given that the book covers cosmology, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, oceanography, paleontology, archeology, and meteorology (which is not counting the things that the tangents touched on briefly). Not something you read to get in depth knowledge in any one field, maybe, and not even a book you'd read as an introduction to a field, but a very good summary of the development of science that is relatively broad and fairly easy to read.

It's like reading an abstract on Science. Not something I'd read a second time but then, unless you didn't take notes on your article properly and need to reference it later, you wouldn't read an abstract a second time anyway.

Worthwhile to read the first time? Yes.